Pizmoboy Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Has anyone looked into getting 10.6 installed on one of the new generation of ultraportable laptops? Acer's new 1830t looks awesome if it would run Mac OS X well. It has an i3 or i5 processor, and high-resolution screen with 5-7 hours battery life, but is barely bigger than the 10" netbooks. Another option would probably be the new Lenovo ideaPad S160 but I can't seem to find any discussion about compatibility or tutorials/guides for either of these models? They are both reasonably new, but surely I'm not the only one who wants a reasonably powerful mac that's a step up from our netbooks, but not a 13 inch beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizmoboy Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 Hmm... 112 views and still noone with any ideas or experience on this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurchy Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Well I actually just got one. Its a pretty nice little machine so far. However no luck with osx yet. I didn't try much yet but I did try [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] last night and no go. CD boots but once you pick the osx installer you get some sort of bios error. Once I have more time to mess with it I'll let you know if I have any luck. Meanwhile, if anyone else out there has made it work or has any good suggestions on what to try please let me know. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizmoboy Posted August 27, 2010 Author Share Posted August 27, 2010 Awesome, kurchy! Keep us informed. This would be such a perfect little MacBook Mini with potentially more power than the 13" MBP at half the price and a more portable size! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizmoboy Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 Hey Kurchy- any news on this front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majidbhurgri Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Has anyone looked into getting 10.6 installed on one of the new generation of ultraportable laptops? Acer's new 1830t looks awesome if it would run Mac OS X well. It has an i3 or i5 processor, and high-resolution screen with 5-7 hours battery life, but is barely bigger than the 10" netbooks. Another option would probably be the new Lenovo ideaPad S160 but I can't seem to find any discussion about compatibility or tutorials/guides for either of these models? They are both reasonably new, but surely I'm not the only one who wants a reasonably powerful mac that's a step up from our netbooks, but not a 13 inch beast. Last night I installed OS X 10.6.2 in VMware and everything is working like a charm. You have to live with a few quirks such as pressing couple of keys while starting up, an error message when you power off the vm and probably sleep or suspend mode may not be working. Other than that every thing seems to be working flawlessly. And yes, one more thing, it is 10.6.2 and you cannot update it to 10.6.3 or 4. It takes less than an hour to be done with installation as well as post installation fixes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizmoboy Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share Posted October 23, 2010 Last night I installed OS X 10.6.2 in VMware and everything is working like a charm. You have to live with a few quirks such as pressing couple of keys while starting up, an error message when you power off the vm and probably sleep or suspend mode may not be working. Other than that every thing seems to be working flawlessly. And yes, one more thing, it is 10.6.2 and you cannot update it to 10.6.3 or 4. It takes less than an hour to be done with installation as well as post installation fixes! Thanks for the input! I don't think that's quite the solution I'm looking for though. I currently have a lenovo S10 netbook that works nearly completely as a macbook replacement... sleep, fan, wifi, sound, webcam, etc... It's just a little bit slow. Basically I want something like the new 11.6" macbook air, but which has a normal 2.5" hard drive for enough storage space to actually use the computer as a primary computer with all media, and non-soldered RAM, and user-replaceable battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majidbhurgri Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Thanks for the input! I don't think that's quite the solution I'm looking for though. I currently have a lenovo S10 netbook that works nearly completely as a macbook replacement... sleep, fan, wifi, sound, webcam, etc... It's just a little bit slow. Basically I want something like the new 11.6" macbook air, but which has a normal 2.5" hard drive for enough storage space to actually use the computer as a primary computer with all media, and non-soldered RAM, and user-replaceable battery. I too had OS X 10.6.4 running like charm on Lenovo s10 in a triple boot set up. I really loved that machine and gave it up only yesterday. Though I liked its OS X performance even better, also because it was working independently of Windows, over all I like 1830t better for its power and larger screen. Have you tried Lenovo s12? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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